Sportlyzer product update: coaches’ rights, failed emails widget, and more

Our last months have been busy. While most of the development we have done is not visible to you (restructuring the code so that we could later add some really nice stuff), there are some useful things that you can benefit from right away. Here’s a quick overview:

• Easily invite players and parents to use Sportlyzer
• Failed emails widget will give you an overview of which emails could not be delivered.
• Coaches can’t edit other coaches’ training sessions or attendance anymore.
• You will receive a certain percentage of your monthly payment as free SMS credits each month.

Sportlyzer is hiring a Full Stack Developer

Sportlyzer is looking for a full stack web developer to join our small and agile team. You will develop both client and server components of our software platform for youth sports clubs, including different technologies like PHP, MySQL, HTML, AngularJS, etc.

Can player evaluation and aptitude testing be harmful to kids and how to do it safely?

Unexpected reaction to our Tests feature release

Everyone in our team was excited when we released new features for player evaluation and testing and sending progress reports via email. We had planned it with the best intention to help coaches track player’s progress and give personal feedback to players – the thing that parents are missing most from their kids’ sport clubs.

Everything started very well and we got very positive feedback from many clubs using our software. But suddenly an opposition rose on our Facebook page over the issue of whether player evaluation and testing would deprive kids of fun of playing. Our post received comments like:

Attendance tracking just got beefed up with absence reasons

We have updated Sportlyzer’s attendance tracking functionality. You can now mark absence reasons, mark if players were late, write attendance related notes, and view color coded monthly reports.

Sportlyzer product update (invitations and invoicing)

We have improved Sportlyzer to make some of your tasks faster and others more clear. Take a look!

You can now search players by parents’ contact details

Great news, folks. You can now search players by their own or their parents’ contact information (names, emails, phone numbers).

Holiday greetings and “water skating” on lake Saadjärve

We send you our holiday greetings from lake Saadjärve… while skating on water! Want to see how “water skating” worked out for us?

Want to get 40% off Sportlyzer this Christmas?

Subscribe to Sportlyzer annual plan before 30 Dec midnight and we’ll give you a 40% discount for the next 12 months.

Player progress evaluation, testing, and reporting now available on Sportlyzer

Here is our long-awaited update that makes it easier for coaches to track the progress of player evaluations and test results. We have added sample tests for technical, tactical, physical, and psychological testing. And sending progress reports to players and parents via email is the cherry on the cake.

Sportlyzer prices are now more flexible for your club

We have received feedback from sports clubs that our pricing is not flexible enough for them. So we fixed it.